TITLE Degeneracy: the game of perversion.
META Description Official site for the text adventure Degeneracy.

It is not the policy or the wish of the Church to interfere with
the Governors of the temporal World. But when those charged with the
Welfare of God's Citizens use their Positions to endorse the cause of
Sin; when the Land itself blackens under the touch of a cruel Master;
then are there rectifying Steps which must be taken and edifying
Precedents which may be studied.

Degeneracy

by Leonard RichardsonReleased 30 March 2001

Note: There's been a report of 0.51 causing errors in DOS
versions of frotz.Please let me know if you have a DOS or Windows
box and are willing to help debug.

About Degeneracy

Degeneracy is a text adventure of the old school, written in
the style of the very old school; eighteenth century or
thereabouts. There are several main puzzles which tie into the plot,
but not all of them can be solved by merely moving objects around the
game world. It will take perserverence and skepticism to uncover the
mystery at the game's heart.

There's also a pig in it, and everyone loves pigs.

About the Author

A person named Leonard Richardson, whom it is unlikely you have
ever met, is the author of this game. He has certain physical
properties and mental states. It is rumored that he experiences
qualia, though this has yet to be verified.

If you like this game, it is iffy whether or not you will like my
previous contribution to the IF genre, Guess The Verb! (and vice versa if
you like Guess The Verb!). Note that neither Degeneracy
nor Guess The Verb! are recommended as first games for people
unfamiliar with interactive fiction.

Credits

I'd like to thank my army of beta testers: Mike Popovic, Cedric
Knight, Kevin Maples, Pete Peterson II, Nick Moffitt, Ben
Collins-Sussman, and Mike Sussman. They collectively sent me billions
of bugs which I dutifully fixed, tried stupid things which were often
not so stupid and ought to have actually worked, and tested the game
on many more platforms and many more interpreters than I would have
had the patience to do.

Reporting Bugs

If you've found a bug in Degeneracy, let me know about it so
I can fix it. My email address is leonardr@segfault.org. Before
sending me your bug report, please make sure your version of the game
is up to date and check the lists of fixed and open bugs. Do note that the bug lists contain
immense spoilers.

Feelies

Pictures: See! Nick Moffitt blasted by the awesome power of
Degeneracy!*

*Picture may have been extensively doctored.

Spoilers: If you are absolutely sick of
Degeneracy and all it stands for, and/or you want all the
secrets of the game laid bare to you, simply download and read the
source code. This will spoil you far more effectively than any text
document I could write explaining the game to you. In fact, you could
probably successfully spoil yourself completely just by reading the
bug lists.

Postmortem: A window on
the development of and motivations behind the game.